Follow along as we live blog the event, starting Monday evening at 6:00 CST. (refresh and scroll down for updates) 22 churches have been invited to participate in a roundtable discussion about the role of the local church in global mission. These practitioners have come together as peers to share ideas, best practices, and lessons [...]
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Sending Church Roundtable
If the Great Commission belongs to the church, then what? Today and tomorrow The Upstream Collective has the honor of discussing this question and more with the leaders of about 20 churches at the Sending Church Roundtable. Generally, we’re discussing nine topics, including what it means for a church to send out its own, how [...]
GEM in France
Check out this video about Greater Europe Mission in France from Sojourn Community Church and its custom Jet Set trip. Sojourn is working through the question, “To whom are we sent?” so it can be in partnership to take the Gospel to the nations.
Jet Set Turkey: Sardis
By the time the group reached Sardis, we had gotten to know each other pretty well. 18 hours in a hot bus moves you past the niceties stage pretty quickly. Technically, Sardis was the sixth stop on our tour of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor. We had discussed theology, debated politics, and argued sports. [...]
Tensions in Mission: Exponential 2011
How does a church reach the nations? What does being missional look like? How do international partnerships work? The Upstream Collective’s CalebCrider recently participated in “Getting Stuck Between Missional and Missionary?” a panel discussion facilitated by EdStetzer at the Exponential Conference. As Upstream continues a yearlong effort of looking at tensions in mission, we wanted [...]
Jet Set: Mark Michael
Church planter Mark Michael joined the Jet Set trip to learn. He moved to Scotland less than a week before boarding the plane to Prague, where he hoped to acquire insight on European culture. What he’s gained, however, has exceeded his expectations in cultural learning, relationship building and teaching. Seven years ago Michael planted a [...]
Jet Set Update: Day 3
The guys on the trip finally seemed to have remembered that their phones also have cameras, and we got some great shots of lunch, the group in front of a museum, a cathedral, a conversation with a Czech national, and some great missional conversation in a local, independently-owned Czech coffee shop Starbucks. Rodney tries to [...]
Join the JetSet conversation
You’ve been praying. You’re a leader in your church—maybe one that could be considered a model missional church, or maybe one that is only beginning to explore what being missional looks like—and desperately are seeking the Lord for how He wishes to significantly impact your church and life. You’re willing to invest in whatever it [...]
Upstream at Velocity
ChurchPlanters.com wishes to help churches impact the world with the gospel by helping them be on mission in their Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and to the ends of the Earth (Acts 1:8). Feb. 21-22 they are hosting Velocity, a conference for church leaders wishing to reach the lost while focusing on keeping in step with the [...]
Where to be in 2011
God has been doing some incredible things at The Upstream Collective, and we pray 2011 will continue to rock our world as the Lord teaches and molds us for His glory. Please join us: Speaking at ChurchPlanters.com (February) Leading Jet Set trips to Prague and Budapest (April), Central Asia and a virtual Jet Set to [...]
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